. >>> tonight's health alert is about something practically all young children in the united states use. i'm talking about baby bottles, sippy cups, pacifiers, but parents may not realize there are dangers there they don't know about. bigad shaban reports. >> reporter: 22-month-old morgan sheryl has a chipped tooth. >> she reached for me and felt forward and hit her face on the ottoman in front of our couch and her bottle happened to be in her mouth at the time. >> reporter: a new study in the journal of pediatrics finds over a two decade period more than 45,000 children under age 3 went to the hospital for injuries related to the use of baby bottles, pacifiers and sippy cups. that's approximately one child every four hours. >> the vast majority of the injuries in the study were falls that children experienced and over 70% of the injuries were injuries to the area around the mouth or the mouth itself. >> reporter: the study also found 2/3 of the injuries were to children who were 1 year old, churn who were just learning to walk and -- children who were just learning to walk and maybe tr